The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.